Men do not accept their prophets and slay them but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

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To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind not only love but every living force on

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love, but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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